Investigating the effects of climate change on structural resistance and actions

Conference paper (2021)

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André Orcesi DTecITM/DTOA/GITEX
Alan O’Connor Trinity College Dublin
Dimitris Diamantidis OTH Regensburg
Emilio Bastidas-Arteaga Universite de la Rochelle-CNRS
Miroslav Sykora Czech Technical University
Teng Wu University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Olga Markogiannaki University of Western Macedonia
Boulent Imam University of Surrey
M. Pregnolato University of Bristol
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Climate change Vulnerability Adaptation Durability Extreme events
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2021

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English

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Abstract

One major issue when considering the effects of climate change is to understand, qualify and quantify how natural hazards and the changing climate will likely impact infrastructure assets and services as it strongly depends on current and future climate variability, location, asset design life, function and condition. So far, there is no well-defined and agreed performance indicator that isolates the effects of climate change for structures. Rather, one can mention some key considerations on how climate change may produce changes of vulnerability due to physical and chemical actions affecting structural durability or changes of the exposure in terms of intensity/frequency of extreme events. This paper considers these two aspects and associated challenges, considering some recent activities of members of the IABSE TG6.1.